What I learned in 1991 is no less true today and no less important for people to understand,” Hill wrote. “Responses to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence must start with a belief that women matter as much as the powerful men they encounter at work or at school, whether those men are bosses or professors, colleagues or fellow students.

And she’s right that we haven’t even discussed the well-being of these women.

1) They can actually lose more in reporting rape/assault than they lost by being raped or assaulted, even when their stories are believed.

2) The default reaction of the majority of American men (including, and especially, those in power–and including liberal, libertarian, progressive men as well as conservative men) is not just the presumption of the innocence of the accused, but the presumption of the guilt of the accuser.

3) We spend more time telling our daughters how not to get raped than we do in making our sons understand their responsibility not only for not being rapists, but in not turning away when they see it happening.

“2) The default reaction of the majority of American men (including, and especially, those in power–and including liberal, libertarian, progressive men as well as conservative men) is not just the presumption of the innocence of the accused, but the presumption of the guilt of the accuser.”

This. Look at Trump’s statement today about President Obama:

“He’s talking about me like he knows me,” Trump told supporters in Greensboro, North Carolina. “I don’t know him, he doesn’t know me and why doesn’t some woman maybe come up and say what they say falsely about me, they could say about him. They could say it about anybody. They could say it about anybody. He better be careful because they could say it about anybody.”

This is the classic women lie trope that far too many men buy into. What Trump is saying here is that all men are in danger of being accused of sexual assault because women lie about this stuff all the time because women are lying liars.

I wrote a while ago that when it comes to Trump and women it’s all about whether he’d “do” her or not. And… I was right.

Leave it to puck to equate the idea that women should be taken seriously when they report sexual assault with … McCarthyism. (Follow the link.)

Of course in restating puck’s argument that women reporting sexual assault are the equivalent of Tail Gunner Joe attempting to destroy tens of thousands of American lives for political gain I will be accused of putting the words he used into his mouth.